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This is the blog of a one Ben Wilson, a Louisville, Kentucky native who enjoys baseball, beer, music, bikes, things that fly and good food. By day he pushes pixels and makes the Internet happen for a local advertising agency. His wife, Kelly is an Ironman, and his baby Amelia is the cutest thing ever. |
The BBC has been working on a program entitled “The Son of God”. For this program, they have attempted to re-create the face of Jesus with science rather than the current “pretty-boy” image he has now.
Check out the story here, with a picture of the computer-modeled face as well.
My question to you: Do you still want to believe in a religion with this Neanderthal looking mug as your spiritual leader? Not me! I’m joing the Archie Bunker Religion!
So Saturday, I got to fly my remote controlled airplane for the first time. Exhilirating? Oh yes? Nerve-racking? Can be. Proud? Sure.
Well, everything went just fine until the wing folded in half! (oh dear!).
Luckily, everything was captured on film (digital film, actually). Come, gather round children, and I’ll tell you the story of the Flying Shoebox!.
My father used to (and I assume, still does) collect balsa models of planes, and we used to go out to the park to watch other folks fly them. I always loved that idea, but assumed that it was ludicrously expensive.
Well, it’s not CHEAP cheap, but it’s not really all that bad. I recently bought a plane kit and a radio controller, and I’m starting to put it together.
It’s electric, so I don’t have to deal with tiny little gas engines, of which I know little. I at least KNOW how an electric motor works with the alternating current and all that wackiness. So, in any casy, I think the first flight will probably be within a week or two, weather permitting. I can’t wait.
Well, it’s been a LOOOONG damned time since I posted anything here, and I apologize, though it’s not like I have a huge readership. In any case, I have been slowly working through the new version theLocust, or more accurately, a complete weblog-thingy codenamed “Spanktoy”. Ok, it’s not “Spanktoy”, but i’m calling it “kludge-o”. Click the link to read a definition of “kludge”.
In any case, I REALLY hope to have this new version up sometime in the next two weeks. I’ve really been hampered by other hobby interests (damned Dreamcast), and sometimes I wonder why I do this at all, really, but then I get back on that horse, and keep coding.
The new version of the weblog will have plenty of cool shit. Including, configurable front page (different little sideboxes, called “widgets”), the ability to submit news either to a user-voted queue, or directly to the admins, a polling booth, and numerous neat little things. I’m about 64.3% done with the stuff I want to get done, so if I put the pedal down, it’ll get done.
I’ve also registered kyGeek.org, intended to be a community weblog for techies in Kentuckiana, and it will run kludge-o when I gets it goin’.
In the meantime, why don’t you go despise Scientology a little more.